Discussion on Sterling - Responsive Wordpress Theme

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Hi there,
I like your design a lot but I am testing the website with IE8 and I have some problems with the menus. The drop-down menu appears open as a list, and the left navigation appears without formatting. The gallery is not working either.

Just wanted to give my initial thoughts on the theme after getting a friends site up and running on it recently.

I am definitely not a web expert, I have a couple personal wordpress blogs with paid templates I have goofed around with so I have picked up a few things, but not much.

One big plus I found with Sterling is that it doesn’t take much at all to make it look like the demo out of the box. I have had problems with that on other themes, not with Sterling. You can load up all the content that you see on the demo to get it rolling (optional), but it didn’t take long to replace that content. So the demo I showed my friend before he purchased the theme, he ACTUALLY got right away.

Support was great, I had one hang up and a quick ticket opened and it was resolved in just a few minutes.

The only thing I have noticed is a few issues with the gallery page on the mobile version, but to be fair I haven’t opened a ticket on it so it may be something that could be corrected. Just not a priority for our site. The rest of the mobile version seems to function well.

Couple things I love:
-The set up videos are great and will get you through most of the basics to get going.
-I like the color choices, background design choices, and even the logo symbols you can quickly add to your header. This little flair really adds an edge to the pages and it is SO easy to change up.
-The layer slider plug in (included with this template or sold separately on theme forest) took a bit of time to work through the details but is a really nice option to have. There are two other types of sliders so you have some choices.

Couple things I wouldn’t mind having:
-The ability to add more then 5 lightbox items in the gallery pages (without having to program it in, there are instructions to do so in their knowledge base)
-The ability to put titles on each individual lightbox photo in the gallery pages (unless I missed this somewhere)

I am considering two templates, this is one of them. I notice when I open your live demo on my tablet that a lot of the animated slides end up with elements on top of each other. Is there a remedy for this or is it just the nature of the dynamic slider.

Sorry for the delay Hopefully you will still see this… It is the layer slider. When I view it on my tablet, the fly-ins end up on top of each other and unreadable. It seems the main background image sizes to fit but the layers that slide in are too big. I really like the theme but I want it to be as functional as possible on tablets and mobile devices. Thanks!

Our client want to use this theme, but is concerned about the lack of IE7 compatibility.
Is the whole theme incompatible, or just certain features and functions? If it is the latter, do you have a list of incompatibilities documented somewhere?

We unfortunately do not have a list of all IE7 incompatibilities. The styling of certain items does not look so great in IE7 but the primary item is the main navigation.

IE7 is quite a dated browser and only holds a very small portion of the browser market share. We understand your client will want what they want but perhaps you can make it clear that it’s not an item of huge concern.

Also does your client have an existing website with Google Analytics? If so they can view how many of their visitors are coming to the site from IE7 and determine if it’s an issue for them or not.

Just bought the theme and the organization and tools are amazing. However I am having a problem adding a google map. For some reason the iframe is being removed after I save it. I can see it once, but when I reload the page it is gone. When I go to the page the iframe has been removed. Please help.

I just want to say to anyone on the fence about buying this theme, DO IT! This theme is amazing, so flexible and beautiful. I’ve bought and built dozens of themes from different designers and this is by far my favorite.

Also the support really is 2nd to none. Really nice developers and happy to help..

Thanks so much, I’m looking forward to anything you guys put out in the future I’ll be the first to buy it!

I am thinking about purchasing this theme. I really like it, nice work! I see in your very good training videos there is not one for WooCommerce. Since I am thinking about selling some products I am very interested in this. So after I install this theme, am I going to have to install the WooCommerce plugin too? It seems when installing the WooCommerce plugin they make you choose one of their themes. How does all this work with your theme? Is there any more documentation on this and getting it to work with your theme?

Hi there,
Is there a way to make the Gallery have a sidebar? I need to have a left sidebar and then include a 4 column gallery to the right of it on one page. I created a sidebar and even chose it on the page, but it still does not show up. Any help you can provide would be great appreciated.
Thanks

PRE-SALE QUESTION-
I keep coming back to Sterling! Just bought two e-Commerce themes and I can’t stand them.. so I’m back to Sterling. This client has the following issues that I would love to know if they are an issue:

1.) They already have an account with Merchant e-Solutions and I have to set up my first ecommerce store. I anticipate I will need to use the wp-ecommerce plugin.. is that a challenge with Sterling?
2.) I’m familiar with your gallery and love it. My client will have many galleries and may have 10-15 images per gallery… it seems your galleries are limited to five images.. is there a work around for this?

1) We’ve not worked very much with the WP-Ecommerce plugin so we don’t have too many details to share about this plugin. It is likely that functionality should be pretty good out of the box but you may need to add some custom styling to match the look of the rest of the Sterling theme.

2) The Gallery can display as many or as few items as needed.There is however only “one gallery template” which pulls from a specific category so having multiple gallery pages will require some theme modification. The single gallery template is best used with the built-in categories which users can filter to display only items from the category.

I hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if there’s anything else we can do to help.

I have not programming experience and i find it quite easy and when i have ran into a problem the support has been out of this world. they go above and beyond to help you. I can t rate this theme and true themes enough.